Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (and Giveaway!)

The beginning of each year brings a flurry of excitement as we commit to making healthy changes. We all know that meal planning saves us money, time, and stress, but for a variety of reasons, meal planning remains a struggle for many of us.

If creating and following a meal plan feels impossible to you, we have the perfect opportunity to make 2017 the year that meal planning becomes a part of your life! Join us for Plan to Eat’s Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge.

The Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge is Plan to Eat’s 30-day challenge to help you start your own meal planning routine, and it’s completely free.

Throughout January you will see how to make freeze-ahead meals for one (or more!) weeks of dinners and have extras in the freezer. Imagine not having the stress of dinner for the entire week, but still get home-cooked meals on the table! On top of that, you’ll have backup meals in your freezer that you can pull out whenever you’re too busy to cook

We have provided recipes for the first two weeks from the book Fix, Freeze, Feast, and the second two weeks from 100 Days of Real Food. All of these tried and true recipes are perfect for preparing ahead of time so that you can avoid mealtime stress during the week.

This video will show you how the challenge works:

Join the challenge:

1. If you don’t already use Plan to Eat, sign up for a free 30 day trial on our special Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge page, and you will automatically be linked to all of the free resources that you will need for the challenge.

2. If you are already logged into your Plan to Eat account, visit our welcome page for current accounts and we will automatically add the Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge recipes and menus to your friends page.

3. Join the conversation in our Facebook groupto discuss tips and tricks to make your kitchen super-efficient while making sure that everyone is fed.

What’s a challenge without a $400 prize package at the end?!

Everyone who joins the challenge by friending Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge in your Plan to Eat account will be entered into a huge giveaway with a $400 prize package! The drawing will be held on January 31st and the winner will receive:

($200) KitchenAid 13 Cup Metal Food Processor (your choice of color!)

($39) 1 free year of Plan to Eat

($19) a Plan to Eat canvas shopping bag

($15) a copy of the book Fix, Freeze, Feast

($23) Komax Oven Safe Glass Food Containers

And over $100 of other tools to get your kitchen set up and running efficiently!

So, join us!

If you are new to meal planning or struggling to start, join the challenge and let’s find a system that works for you.

And even if you are already a seasoned meal planner, we’d love for you to join our Facebook group so that we can all share tips and tricks with each other.

Let’s make 2017 the year that we get organized, and get dinner on the table!

The Giveaway Fine Print:

By participating in the Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge you are entering and agree to the following Terms & Conditions: • No purchase necessary.• Open to residents of the U.S. 18+ (we apologize to those of you outside the US!)• Opening date: 12/27/2016 03:00 pm MST• Ending date: 01/31/2017 11:59 pm MST• Giveaway sponsored by Plan to Eat, Inc. All rights reserved. 411 N Railroad Ave, Loveland, Colorado 80537 • 1 winner will win all of the prizes of the giveaway: ($200) KitchenAid 13 Cup Metal Food Processor, ($39) 1 free year of Plan to Eat, ($19) a Plan to Eat canvas shopping bag, ($10) a copy of the book Fix, Freeze, Feast, ($23) Komax Oven Safe Glass Food Containers, and over $100 of other tools to get your kitchen set up and running efficiently! • The winner will receive all of these items, mailed together, through US Mail.• 1 winner will be chosen at random from all of accounts that are linked through a friendship to the Make Ahead Meal Plan Plan to Eat account.• Plan to Eat will contact the winner via email.

Christopher enjoys a great glass of juice, eating grains that he has never heard of, and seeing how much spinach he can sneak into his children's smoothies. MOREThey let him know when he goes too far. He also spends his days wandering the food blogosphere as he does his work for Plan to Eat. He likes to share what he finds, and tips about how to better use Plan to Eat, here on the Plan to Eat blog.

Hi! I have added Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (22) as a friend, see Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (22) when I view all friends and can see the recipes, but can’t see the menus. What I see are my own menus. What am I doing wrong?

Hi there. After you have added Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge as a friend, you will click on the “Plan” link at the top. Next you will click on “Menus” on the left. Next you will pull the “Select a Friend” pulldown menu to “Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge” to see the 4 menus that we have put together for this challenge. From there you can drag and drop them onto the planner. If you still have trouble please send us an email (support@plantoeat.com) with your username and we’ll walk you through it in more detail. We’re happy to help!

I’m already a Plan To Eat member, and I’m not sure how to join the challenge. I’ve clicked the links in my email, and I’m taken to the account page with an invitation to add friends, but I don’t know how to join myself. :) Can you help?

So I would like to do the challenge. Says open to anyone. Im not a member, however I did attempt to do the free trial last year. It seemed complicated and I didnt get a chance to figure it out. How can I join the challenge?

I just entered the Challenge and requested to be added to the FB group. I am *so* glad that PTE has organized this. I have been a member for 2 (maybe 3) years, but have utterly failed at using PTE effectively. I am an aspiring meal planner, and I believe that being in a community with seasoned and novice planners who are willing to help each other learn is just what I need to move in the right direction!

I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to add Make Ahead Meal Challenge as a friend. I went to “+ Friend” and searched from there, but that didn’t seem to work. Could you help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?

Sandy!
I had trouble too.
Go to friends. click add friends
then in the top box (where you add email addresses)
type Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge
hit send email invitations and the friend will automatically be added!
Cheers!

I’m also having trouble adding a friend without an email address. How do we add “Make Ahead….” without an email? OH… I figured it out… you add: Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge (spelled out just like that) in the spot where you’d put the email. Worked for me….

I am in Canada, and I realize I am not eligible to join the challenge, but I was wondering if we (foreign folk :)) could have access to the menu plans and recipes? It looks like a great way to try some freezer menus.

Hi there! Yes, you do have access to the challenge and we would love for you to join us! Unfortunatly, the only stipulation is that we cannot award the prize package to a winner outside of the US. Before the challenge group will appear in your account, you will need to send a friend request to “Make Ahead Meal Plan Challenge.” After sending the request you will be automatically connected with the account and will be able to see the meal plans and menus! This article will show you how to send the request. https://feedback.plantoeat.com/knowledgebase/articles/404247-invite-friends-to-share-recipes

Plan to Eat is an online menu planner that uses your recipes, scheduled for the days you want them. It automatically makes your grocery list, organized the way you like to shop, using the recipes you’ve selected. Plan to Eat makes it easier to eat real food, prepared at home, with your family gathered around your own table.

You are invited to a free, 30 day, full-service, no strings attached trial.

No payment information is required and your feedback is welcome.

At the end of the trial you can subscribe for $4.95/month or $39/year.